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Luke 10 Exploration Trip: A Report from Mexico<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The first of ten Luke 10 Exploration Trips in 2022 went out last month (April 19-29) with a team of 15 to three states in Mexico! Thank you for praying for this team and EFM’s Luke 10 Initiative as Evangelical Friends discern where to launch new mission fields as part of EFM’s Five-Year Goal! See more information here.<\/p>\n

The following is a report from trip leaders Maria Giron (EFM Missions Mobilizer) and Trent Jacks (EFC-MAYM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who Was on this Trip?<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

We are grateful for a great team, which we are sure was formed by God. Each member brought a lot of value to the team with each of their gifts and personalities. We were especially grateful for the six young potential future missionaries (ages between 15 to 26 years old), we enjoy seeing their commitment to serve God and the clear calling each of them have. It is obvious to see in their lives. There is such great hope in our hearts on these six young future missionaries.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>From Mexico<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Ernesto Ramirez- Superintendent Mexico YM
\n\u2022 Elizabeth Ramirez \u2013 ITA Director
\n\u2022 Sergio & Luisa Ayala \u2013 Pastors from Coahuila
\n\u2022 Israel De La Torre (Accompanied by his wife and his two children)- Pastor from Aguascalientes
\n\u2022 Jeremias Ayala \u2013 15 year old Potential Future Missionary from Coahuila
\n\u2022 Anna Wong (and her, well behaved, 2-year-old daughter) \u2013 Potential Future Missionary from Coahuila Friends
\n\u2022 Angelica De La Torre- Potential Future Missionary from Coahuila Friends
\n\u2022 Ximena Maldonado- Potential Future Missionary from Coahuila Friends
\n\u2022 Camila Carrillo \u2013 Potential Future Missionary from Coahuila Friends<\/p>\n

From U.S.<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Trent from EFC- MAYM
\n\u2022 Edwin and Maria Giron- EFM Missions Mobilizer
\n\u2022 Matt Macy- EFM Director of Mobilization
\n\u2022 Nathan Macy \u2013 Future Missionary<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where Did We Travel?<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\"\"<\/a>While in Mexico, the team explored three states- Jalisco, Nayarit, and Colima. We explored 16 towns in nine days!<\/p>\n

Why did we decide to visit these selected places? Well, in the center of Mexico exists a zone identified as the circle of silence, this zone includes eight states: Jalisco, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Nayarit, Michoacan, Guanajuato, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi. In the Circle of Silence there are 115 towns with less than 1% of Evangelical Christians. This is the place with the fewest Christians in Latin America!<\/p>\n

In each town our team divided into three groups to go around the town, walk and talk to local people at the plaza, pray for families, go into businesses to talk to owners or employees. None of the team members missed opportunities to follow the impulses from the Holy Spirit to contact the right people, we even had opportunity to gather children in a plaza and play while other leaders of our team talk to their parents.<\/p>\n

In most towns people were kind and inviting. They were willing to hear about gospel. In most places our team felt welcomed and, in some places, even invited to come into town and plant Christian churches.<\/p>\n

Every place we went we could feel the great need people have to know Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jalisco Report<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Towns Explored<\/strong><\/p>\n